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Why didn't they use actual control sequences instead of text chars, ASCII had plenty of those?
by eviks 2y ago
Why didn't they use actual control sequences instead of text chars, ASCII had plenty of those?
- inejge 2y agoWhen your debugger is telnet circa 1980, non-printable characters are a liability. (You pay for it later, when people who've never seen "...end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>" botch the implementation.)